🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE.
🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms.
🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇
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Ecocentrism, Harm and Morality in Environmental Crime Proceedings #recommendedread #courts #ecocentrism
doi.org/10.5771/0934...
#Umweltkriminalität #Wirtschaftskriminalität aktuell
rp-online.de/nrw/panorama...
#mustread #EnvironmentalCrime #Interpol www.interpol.int/News-and-Eve...
#mustread article on: „The Profit-Environment Paradox: Analyzing the Impact of International Financial Institutions on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through the Lens of Green Criminology“
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🔴 #Exklusiv: #CumEx-Razzia bei renommiertem Universitätsprofessor aus NRW. Es geht um CumEx-Gutachten. Welche Rolle spielen Wissenschaftler im größten deutschen Steuerskandal? 👇
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
See also my paper on "Criminology of Crime Avoidance" CEJ 2022 perma.cc/4APZ-8CRV
Cum-Ex Legal Opinions: Where Does Aiding & Abetting Begin?
Recent raid on a tax law professor raises question of when legal opinions in Cum-Ex scandal cross into criminal liability. In attached paper (perma.cc/5PYN-6WXE) as well as in my upcoming book “Anti-Levaithan” I explored this gray area.
Financial sector fails to account for climate risks when granting loans, insurance – supervisors
Banks and insurers need better risk management for natural disasters, said BaFin
🌍#mustread: #AlessandroPelizzon’s “Ecological Jurisprudence” reimagines legal systems to address humanity’s responsibility to nature. My research in #greencriminology aligns, exploring financial flows behind green crimes. Stay tuned! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🌍💸 #BrookeHarrington’s “Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism” reveals how offshore finance erodes democracy and fuels inequality. My upcoming book, “Anti-Leviathan,” builds on this, exposing the role of lawyers, bankers, and advisors in enabling these systems. Stay tuned!
Who owns all the vessels that are up to no good? Illegal fishing, labor violations, pollution, human trafficking. Who actually profits from this? We're working hard to find out, and we will publish what we find. Help us spread the word.
cc @openownership.bsky.social
Title slide of my talk "Going Beyond Research: Climate Change Engagement of Scientists"
What do scientists think about their role on a planet in crisis? How engaged are they in climate action, and what barriers do they see to getting more involved?
Thanks to @researchersdesk.bsky.social for recording my talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvP...
Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1cAjC...
Education ministry in Germany (Bavaria…) does not grant climate activist their teacher license because the term profit maximization used by the activist is "related to communist ideology" seen as "irreconcilable with a liberal democratic order." 🤡
"A UN rapporteur had attended our trial and said our sentences were “not acceptable in a democracy” "
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In the capstone simulation for the course “Cybersecurity Incident Response: Legal Leadership During Cyber Crisis,” students roleplayed lawyers and corporate staff for a hotel chain navigating a potential data breach and threats from cyber threat actors demanding some $20 million dollars in payment.
🌍 Passionate about the environment & sustainability law? PhD in environmental crime/law or related fields? Share your research at JNR 2025 (19–21 June, Hamburg)! Abstracts (non-lawyers welcome) due 28 Feb. Financial support for speakers! 💡 More: www.jnr2025.de #JNR2025
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
book cover
How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change
For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. How can we explain our failure to take action?
New book by MPIfG-Director Jens Beckert out now:
www.mpifg.de/1315877/2025...
#mustread Regunberg et al., Causing or Risking Climate Catastrophe, NYU Env. Law J
nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...
go.bsky.app/Be5ABiJ
Honored to join the expert panel of Germany's Anti Financial Crime Alliance (AFCA) working at the intersection of financial and environmental crime.🌱
🌱I will be moderating a panel at the Defund Meat Conference, held at the MPI in Heidelberg, Germany, next week.
The conference gathers experts, including @KatharinaPistor and @CassSunstein, to rethink global meat governance through legal, economic, and policy lenses.🌍
www.mpil.de/files/pdf6/d...
EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice ejatlas.org
#MustRead: How To Make Millions As a Professional Whistleblower archive.is/us6Qr
Extending the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) mandate to Green Crime? - #mustread proposal by #FrédéricBaab perma.cc/3HAK-SCBW
